A long time ago I bought this plain, blank, black notebook from a book store for about $6. I intended on it being a gift to a friend, but I never gave it away. It was stashed away for a long time and I finally decided that I have a use for it.

Except it was way to boring..and I originally wanted to decorate it anyway. So, I added some random stuff (aka left over craft things).

front

back

first page

I added some things on the inside too. I can't seem to find my little packet of images like the 4 I put to the left here. Otherwise, I would definitely have more there than that. I'd also have the back pages done since there is a pocket built into the back cover.

Alright, so I figure that you might as well waste some time online by learning.
(And me too.)
Plus, I currently need a break from all of my regression analysis for a macro forecasting project with an extremely old version of Excel. I should really buy the 2013 version (mine is 2008. yeah. I know.) but I really don't have enough money.
Anyways..

To make it interesting, I'm going to pick up this book that I borrowed from my French professor, read La Belle et la Bête, and put some french nouns I see in there into a beautiful chart below with translations. So you can learn some French even if you didn't want to. ☺

French (Français)

English (Anglais)

un merchand

a merchant

un garçon

a boy

un père

a father

une maison

a house

la campagne

the countryside

une chose

a thing

une table

a table

la neige

snow

un matin

a morning

► Most of those words ended up being singular masculine. Un/une is masculine/feminine singular for the indefinite article "a" and le/la is masculine/feminine singular for the definite article "the." Les is the plural definite article. Des is the plural indefinite article.

This requires new charts.

articles définis

Français

Anglais

le (m)

the

la (f)

the

les (pl)

the

articles indéfinis

Français

Anglais

un (m)

a

une (f)

a

des (pl)

a

► Examples:

une chose ➝ des choses
a thing ➝ things

la chose ➝ les choses
the thing ➝ the things

un matin ➝ des matinsa morning ➝ mornings

le matin ➝ les matins the morning ➝ the mornings

This would not work with la neige. Weather in French is different.. I'll be getting to that later. But for now, just know that you would say Il y a neige to mean there is snow.